What is "louisa"

Usage examples of "louisa".

Louisa spoke the name with utter loathing, "and Miguel Bautista is Chile's new Captain-General.

And all this, Pendel noticed over Louisa's yelling, had taken place before the first edge of troubled air reached his balcony in Bethania or the first tremors shook the broom cupboard under the stairs where Louisa had taken the children.

At which Hannah throws another screaming fit and Mark locks himself in his room and plays 'Lazy Sheep' non-stop till Louisa beats on his door and says, 'Mark, they'll be here any minute,' which was true because the doorbell rang just at that moment and in marches Rafi Domingo with his body lotion and his insinuating leer and side-burns and crocodile shoes - not all of Harry's tailoring wiles could save him from looking like the worst kind of stage dago, her father would have ordered him round to the back door on the strength of his hair oil alone.

They leave them sheathed in bin liners filled with second hand trousers anonymously dumped to be discovered in the morning, and Gwendolyn and Louisa had quite a collection now, sitting in a box out back.

Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!

Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!

Married to Louisa, daughter of Zonian roughneck and Bible-punching schoolteacher, who dogsbodies five days a week for the great and good Ernie Delgado over at the Panama Canal Commission.

While Louisa laid rows of sausages to splutter and hiss on the grill, Sarah poured batter on to the flat iron griddle and watched it brown into pancakes.

A ship could easily take two or three months to sail from Chile to Spain, and if Louisa had been in England when the news arrived in Galicia then it was no wonder that Sharpe and Harper had come on a fool's errand.

Louisa instructed and rehearsed the voorlopers and herd-boys in loading and priming the weapons.

Even the herd-boys were aware that something monumental had taken place, and they giggled and nudged each other when they watched Jim and Louisa together.

Of one couple he wrote to Louisa Catherine, “They had eyes and ears to perceive the external person, but not feelings to sympathize with the internal griefs, pains, anxieties, solitudes, and inquietudes within.

If one was less afraid, it was Louisa, something of the practical jenny wren.

However, a tuition payment of no less than thirty-five royals—a figure of which Parini was secretly proud—to Miss McBurney’s Justly Famous Seminary and Finishing School on Nashua on behalf of his elder daughter Louisa had left him with minimal resources.

He looked at the letter only long enough to see that it was from Louisa Parini at Miss McBurney’s Justly Famous Seminary and Finishing School on Nashua, and put it away unread.